[solved - thn81] ath9k via wireless-compat but wlan0 is not coming up

Hi all,

I have a TP-LINK TL-WN821N usb Wireless adapter which I am trying to get working via my recently done Arch system. Read the Wireless Setup @Wiki I have followed instructions to install wireless-compat (without problems) Having done the above I thought I could get this going! but not! I am hoping someone might be able to shed some light on this...? Thanks!!

So after the Wireless-compat install I rebooted but wlan0 and dmesg did not show anything useful with ath9k.

after unpacking the compat-wireless package and then continue compiling and installing the driver as you did before. Maybe you are lucky and the patched driver will work for you. Please don't hit me too hard if it doesn't work...

after unpacking the compat-wireless package and then continue compiling and installing the driver as you did before. Maybe you are lucky and the patched driver will work for you. Please don't hit me too hard if it doesn't work...

thn81

Thanks thn81, however how do I run your code? (bit of a newbie i am afraid)I have already make, install the package so its in my system. What steps should I follow?

By the way reading the code: what is meant by having path compat-wireless-2.6.30.orig/drivers..... ? Am I supposed to change this in someway?

Re: [solved - thn81] ath9k via wireless-compat but wlan0 is not coming up

rubberdown wrote:

however how do I run your code?

1. Copy the contents of the "Code" box (starting with the "diff..." line) in my last post to a file and name it "wn821n.patch"2. Get the compat-wireless-2.6.30.tar.bz2 package from wireless.kernel.org (you should already have it)3. Open a terminal, unpack as described on http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download, section "Building and installing"4. Copy the wn821n.patch file into the compat-wireless-2.6.30 directory and change into that directory.5. Use the following command: "patch -p1 < ./wn821n.patch" (without quotes)6. Now continue with compiling and installing the driver just as you did before in your first try (make, sudo make install...)Good luck.

Re: [solved - thn81] ath9k via wireless-compat but wlan0 is not coming up

Unfortunately that didn't work.

Yes, you're right, sorry. Looks like the forum software here changed the format of the patch, so it doesn't match the original file anymore. (I think it replaced tabs with spaces...)I uploaded the correct file to http://filebin.ca/kkwywc/wn821n.patch.Sorry again for confusing you.